@wanderings I get what you are saying and while I can’t relate to it, I do try and understand the people making this same point. What confuses me though, is, has no one considered that we aren’t having information withheld. There just isn’t any MORE information than what we are being given but don’t like the sound of ? While I don’t love government response to this as a whole, I’m not sure why so many refuse to take what they are saying in. They are literally telling us the plan repetitively with three three part mantra. Over and over. And that is the plan.
Yes it only goes three weeks down the line but they can’t give the next step until they see what happens next with the economy, the hospital rates, the death rates, the vaccine and antiviral campaigns, the antibody testing, other countries etc etc etc. There cannot BE further plans until we see if THIS part of the plan actually works in our favour. I feel like lots of people are covering their ears at the info given, because it’s not the info they WANT to be given. Perhaps we aren’t being told when lockdown will end because they haven’t got a clue themselves. There’s a novel, fairly dangerous virus that we don’t fully understand yet and can’t plan too far ahead for. If the government WERE to say ANYTHING even SUGGESTIVE of what they might do next, and then had to backtrack on it because shit hit the fan worse.. there would be absolute uproar.
I’m just not sure it’s a case of people wanting information. I feel like people want to be told what they want to hear and since they can’t be frustrated at a virus , they are frustrated at the government. Or at sally down the road for taking a delivery slot even though she’s 30 and healthy. Or at those idiots next door who’s grandkids are visiting. Or some twat sitting on a bench for a sausage roll mid cycle.
Any next stage in the plan needs to be concrete, well researched, well thought out and certain before they even consider delivering it to the public. And it cannot be why if those things until they see what happens with this peak etc.
The last time the public got hint of impending societal restrictions, there were mass crowds rushing to pubs and the last time they said exercise outside was encouraged, everyone grouped together in parks and hills despite the car parks overflowing because the areas were now busy. And when they announced the next part of the plan was lockdown, people rushed to their second homes in tiny communities with tiny resources. The public’s behaviour after given new information doesn’t inspire much confidence.
I’d be kinda cautious about announcing the next step too.
If they said ‘we will probably Relax measures in two weeks... ‘ people will just start flouting it early because individually they’ll think it’s just about over so it doesn’t matter now.